There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny..

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated..

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness..

We are too much haunted by ourselves, projecting the central shadow of self on everything around us. And then comes the Gospel to rescue us from this….

As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men and nations are bettered and improved ….

God's justice and love are one. Infinite justice must be infinite love. Justice is but another sign of love..

Defeat in doing right is nevertheless victory..

I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them with ….

If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble them by doing them in a noble spirit; we become reconciled to life if we live in the spirit of H….

It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life a….

This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilli….

The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions,but to kindle minds..

Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought..

False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes - whereas the only liberty th….

On earth we have nothing to do with success or with results, but only with being true to God, and for God; for it is sincerity, and not success, whic….

Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If we are susceptible of attachment, the….

To believe is to be happy; to doubt is to be wretched. To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. Only so far as a man believe….

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysteriou….

It is not the number of books you read; nor the variety of sermons which you hear; nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix: but it ….

Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of ….

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever m….